Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Steve Holden a écrit : >> mosscliffe wrote: > (snip) >>> Why is a link better than a button ? >>> >> Beats me why you got that advice. Buttons are perfectly adequate for >> that purpose. > > Call me a purist if you want, but I don't think forms and buttons are > "perfectly adequate" for normal navigation, which should be handled by > links. And FWIW, except for one of the worsts PHP portal in the world, > everybody uses links for navigation. > >> However, you can if you want use links with "javascript: ..." href >> values to accomplish local scripting which can do funky stuff like >> setting form field values and submitting the form. > > Yuck. Anyone doing such a thing should be fired immediatly. > > Steve, I'm not sure you quite got what it's all about : the OP wants to > *paginate* search results. Not to submit data to the server. It's just > normal navigation, and there is absolutely *no* reason to use anything > else than plain old links here. > > My 2 cents. > You're right, the English was contorted enough for me to miss the point. Buttons do seem a bit unnecessary, even to someone who hasn't drunk the REST Kool-Aid. Yet.
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